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Four students involved in public service have been nominated by Michigan State University for the Harry S. Truman Scholarship. The Truman Scholarship Foundation recognizes college juniors with exceptional leadership potential who are committed to affecting change through public service by providing them with financial support for graduate study, leadership training, and fellowship with other students. MSU’s nominees […]

Four undergraduate researchers studying STEM-related fields have been nominated by Michigan State University for the nationally competitive Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. The Goldwater Foundation seeks scholars committed to a career in science, mathematics, or engineering who display intellectual intensity and who have the potential for significant future contribution in their chosen field.  MSU has produced 42 Goldwater […]

Mykala Ford has been nominated by Michigan State University for the Carnegie Junior Fellows Program after studying Arabic abroad in Morocco, Oman and Tunisia and completing two degrees at the university. Each year, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace offers 10-12 fellowships from a pool of nominees from nearly 400 participating colleges. Carnegie junior fellows work as research […]

An undergraduate student researcher at Michigan State University, Henry Pan, has been nominated for the Churchill Scholarship – one nationally competitive award that pays for graduate school in the United Kingdom. Pan is a senior majoring in chemical engineering in the College of Engineering. Established in 1959, the Winston Churchill Foundation’s Scholarship Program offers 14 American students […]

Michigan State University has two finalists for the Rhodes Scholarship – Sarah Kovan, an Honors College senior majoring in comparative cultures and politics in the James Madison College and human biology in the College of Natural Science; and Irene Li, an Honors College senior majoring in genetics and molecular genomics in the College of Natural […]

Three Michigan State University students have received a Boren Scholarship to study languages abroad. Boren Scholarships provide up to $20,000 to U.S. undergraduate students studying in areas of the world that are critical to U.S. national security interests. MSU has produced 34 Boren award winners since 1991. This year, there were 170 awards nationwide from a […]

Nineteen National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows from Michigan State University have been selected for 2015 – the largest class of fellows for MSU since the program began in 1952. An additional 19 were named honorable mentions for MSU. “We at the Graduate School are proud of all our fellowships recipients,” said Karen Klomparens, dean […]